(December 18, 2014 at 2:34 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I love how one of the main arguments for preserving our stupid, outdated relic, the Electoral College, is that many states would simply be ignored as all the attention is paid to metropolitan areas. This argument has many problems but I think the biggest one is "that's what we have now WITH the Electoral College."
I completely agree. It has outlived its original purpose (to address slow speeds of communication in a large country), and has been instead repurposed to buttress the two-party hegemony.
It should be stricken from the Constitution ... but that will never happen, because it benefits the political class to buffer itself from the directly-expressed will of the people.
